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Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: €15.46€9.20THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack ObamaBeyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer... -
Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
RRP: €14.27€9.96True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Now a major TV miniseries starring Andrew Garfield... -
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: €10.70€7.68'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields
RRP: €13.08€10.95Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion... -
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe 9780767900461
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900461Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)... -
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
RRP: €53.55€36.00Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNow a major motion picture, available on Disney Plus.Goodreads best non-fiction book of 2016From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking, hit... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) by Peter Moore
RRP: €29.75€20.97Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen by George Laycock 9781493018826
RRP: €14.27€10.33To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900 by Alex Ford
€26.10Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan
RRP: €17.84€13.03Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily TelegraphWhere does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role... -
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
RRP: €20.22€14.61This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading... -
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: €11.89€7.97WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul... -
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers 9780593240564
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240564Author Katie RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
RRP: €20.83€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983500Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Route 66 Adventure Handbook, 6th Edition: Full-Throttle Sixth Edition by Drew Knowles 9781595801210
RRP: €21.41€15.11Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural... -
The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones
RRP: €26.18€16.72In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. From central bankers,... -
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RRP: €41.65€30.81THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its... -
Seal of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt Michael P. Murphy, U.S. N. by Gary Williams 9781591149651
RRP: €30.88€25.04Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, commander of Navy SEAL Team 10, posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 28 June 2005 during a fierce battle with Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The... -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
RRP: €22.60€16.20All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels,... -
Access to History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 for Edexcel by Vivienne Sanders
€30.00Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: €13.08€9.25The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of... -
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown
RRP: €27.36€23.32In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of... -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
RRP: €20.83€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589829Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois
RRP: €49.98€38.59A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism,... -
Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival by Geoff Doughty
RRP: €42.84€38.07Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of... -
Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution by John F. Luzader 9781932714852
RRP: €19.03€12.95The months-long Saratoga campaign was one of the most important military undertakings of the American Revolution, and John Luzader's impressive Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution, the first all-encompassing... -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: €22.60€17.89Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom 9780520293281
RRP: €28.56€22.42This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives... -
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: €15.46€10.23THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times "Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity,... -
USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Alan Beechey
RRP: €11.89€9.51Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims with contrasts and contradictions. It is a culture of... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
RRP: €30.35€29.02In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our... -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: €34.51€30.44In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin T. Lim 9780195342642
RRP: €104.72€94.96Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy... -
U.S. Army Vehicle Markings 1944 by Jean Bouchery 9781612007373
RRP: €35.69€30.23Everyone is familiar with the iconic WWII Jeep, its green paintwork annotated with white letters, numbers and symbols. Unintelligible to the casual observer, these markings were integral to the organization of the U.S. Army on the move in 1944.This... -
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America by Daniel Schulman 9780451493545
RRP: €35.70€23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451493545Author Daniel SchulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: €13.08€9.72In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places by Michael Mather 9780802874832
RRP: €16.65€10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802874832Author Michael MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
RRP: €13.08€9.25From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early... -
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: €33.32€28.88Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * National Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An Esquire Best Book of 2023 * An NPR "Book We... -
Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America by Thomas Milan Konda
RRP: €30.94€29.57Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of "fake news," it's tempting to think that we're living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion-and the delusional...